Editorialship

The Editorial Team:

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Emma Coonan as the new Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Information Literacy from June 2015. Until the handover in June, Emma will be shadowing Jane and from late Spring, Emma will begin to act as Editor-In-Chief for new articles submitted to the journal.

Editor in Chief: Jane Secker, London School of Economics and Political Science.Jane is Copyright and Digital Literacy Advisor at the London School of Economics and Political Science where she provides advice and training for staff and researchers. She has considerable research experience and has published several books on information literacy, copyright and e-learning. She was a founder member of the LILAC Conference Committee, a keen user of social media and regularly presents at international and national conferences. Follow her on Twitter.

Editor in chief in waiting: Emma Coonan, University of East Anglia, Norwich.
Emma is the Information Skills Librarian at UEA . She holds an MSt and a PhD in literary theory and an MSc in Information and Library Management and her chief research interests are information literacy, learning development and learner agency. In 2011 she was seconded to a fellowship at Wolfson College, Cambridge, to develop ‘A New Curriculum for Information Literacy’ in collaboration with Dr Jane Secker. Since then she has jointly edited two books and is currently writing a third. Follow her on Twitter.

Managing Editor: Cathie Jackson, Cardiff UniversityUntil recently, Cathie co-ordinated the strategic development of information literacy within Information Services at Cardiff University. She was also subject librarian for the Centre for Professional Legal Studies in Cardiff Law School. From 2010 to 2012, she was project manager for the Welsh Information Literacy Project, which established the Information Literacy Framework for Wales. Follow her on Twitter.

Book Review Editor: Ian HunterIan Hunter is Library and Information Manager at Shearman & Sterling (London) LLP. Since qualifying in the early 1990s Ian has worked for law firms, investment banks and a university business school and published articles on information literacy, free sources of legal information and Google as research tool.

Copy editors:
Helen Bader, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.Helen is the Assistant Librarian at RWCMD. She is secretary of the Cardiff: Libraries in Co-operation Staff Development Group and a member of the CILIP Wales Kathleen Cooks Fund Management Committee. Follow her on Twitter.

Digital Communications Officer: Elizabeth McCarthy, University of Oxford and University of Reading
Liz is the Communications and Social Media Officer at the Bodleian Libraries as well as Librarian for the University Museum and Special Collections Services, University of Reading. Her research interests include digital literacy, digital humanities, 17th-century book bindings and library history. Follow her on Twitter.

Editorial Board:

The Editorial Board is made up of the Editorial Team and in addition:

Chair from June 2015: Jane Secker, London School of Economics and Political Science.Jane is Copyright and Digital Literacy Advisor at the London School of Economics and Political Science where she provides advice and training for staff and researchers. She has considerable research experience and has published several books on information literacy, copyright and e-learning. She was a founder member of the LILAC Conference Committee, a keen user of social media and regularly presents at international and national conferences. Follow her on Twitter.

Dr Annemaree Lloyd, School of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia
Annemaree has extensive research interests in information literacy and information practice in theoretical and applied settings. Annemaree’s research has focused on theorizing information literacy as a socially enacted practice. Her current research program explores the role of information literacy practice and constructs of workplace knowledge and identity; the role of information literacy in transition to work; information practices and the intersection of knowledge domains in the health care sector; health information literacy; the relationship between information literacy and social inclusion. Annemaree is the author of Information Literacy Landscapes: Information Literacy in Education, workplace and everyday contexts. In 2009, Annemaree was a RIPPLE (Research Institute for Professional Practice and Learning) Fellow and an Erasmus Mundus Scholar in 2010.

Acting Chair: Ruth Stubbings, Nottingham Trent University
Ruth has been involved in the development of teaching materials that help develop students academic literacy skills, including INFORMS, SMILE, and the revision of the SCONUL Seven Pillars of Information Literacy with Moira Bent. She also lead the collaborative team that developed SirLearnalot.

Dr Ross Todd, Center for International Scholarahip in School Libraries, Rutgers University, USA